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National, William J. Ford

Foster Care Improving, But Not for Minority Children: Report

by William J. Ford April 3, 2019October 31, 2020

Ivory Toldson, author of "No BS (Bad Stats): Black People Need People Who Believe in Black People Enough Not to Believe Every Bad Thing They Hear about Black People," signs a copy of his book for Ernest Green, one of the "Little Rock Nine," during an event at the National Press Club in northwest D.C. on Feb. 25. (Roy Lewis/The Washington Informer)

Black Experience

HU Professor Fights Misleading Stats About Blacks

by Brenda C. Siler March 13, 2019October 31, 2020

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National, Stacy M. Brown

MLK-Themed Study Shows States Making Most Racial Progress

by Stacy M. Brown January 23, 2019October 31, 2020

Dr. Joseph Richardson Jr. and Anneta Arno, director of the DC Office of Health Equity, participate in a symposium on race and policy held at the RISE Center in Southeast on Jan. 17. (J. Wright/The Washington Informer)

McDuffie Takes on Racial Inequity in D.C.

by James Wright Jr. January 23, 2019October 31, 2020

President Lyndon B. Johnson signs the 1964 Civil Rights Act as Martin Luther King Jr. and others watch on July 2, 1964. (Cecil Stoughton/White House Press Office via Wikimedia Commons)

Black Experience

MLK-Themed Study Reveals States with the Most Racial Progress

by WI Guest Author January 18, 2019October 31, 2020

Cyntoia Brown

Cyntoia Brown Granted Clemency for Murder Conviction as Teen

by WI Guest Author January 7, 2019October 31, 2020

**FILE** President Donald Trump (center) gestures as Alveda King, niece of Reverend Martin Luther King Jr., speaks during a signing ceremony for S. 756, First Step Act and H.R. 6964, Juvenile Justice Reform Act with Senator Chuck Grassley, a Republican from Iowa, second left, and Representative Virginia Foxx, a Republican from North Carolina, right, in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, D.C., U.S., on Friday, Dec. 21, 2018. (Andrew Harrer/Bloomberg via Getty Images)

BROWN: Response to The First Step Act

by WI Web Editor January 6, 2019October 31, 2020

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Black Experience

Congress Moves to Help Inmates in Federal Prisons But Not in Predominately Black State Prisons

by WI Guest Author December 26, 2018October 31, 2020

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EDITORIAL: Is Congress Serious About ‘Justice for All?’

by WI Guest Author December 19, 2018October 31, 2020

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Black Experience

The Growing and Disproportionate Imprisonment of Black Women in America

by WI Guest Author December 7, 2018October 31, 2020